National Affairs: Washington Flayed

Bernarr Macfadden's New York Evening ("Porno") Graphic has been
publishing a series of articles on the Negro, spiced up with intimate
glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such
material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic.
But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far
and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay
Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking
thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington,
consciously or unwittingly, betrayed...